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[WCCF] MSI Z170A XPOWER Gaming Titanium Edition Motherboard Unveiled (Updated Pics)

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The latest boards we have for you to feast your eyes upon is MSI's flagship and totally enthusiast targeted, Z170A XPOWER Gaming Titanium Edition motherboard. The new motherboard that will launch on 5th August will feature a fully loaded design that is geared towards overclocking the latest 6th gen Skylake K-Series processors.

The MSI Z170A Gaming motherboard features the LGA 1151 socket that will support Intel's 6th generation CPU that arrive on 5th August. The socket is powered by a 8-Pin plus 4-Pin power configuration while the board is fed power through a 24-Pin ATX connector. The socket is surrounded by a 16 Phase PWM that features the new Titanium chokes, ensuring higher efficiency, longer life cycle and better overclocking, This along with the latest black capacitors are part of MSI's Military Class V components which deliver top quality. The PWM is cooled off by two sets of heatsinks that are interconnected with a heatpipe to transfer heat load. There are four DDR4 slot located on the board which come with MSI's DDR4 Boost technology that automatically adjusts DDR4 clocks with the clock of a button. Next to the DIMMs is a new tool called MSI OC Dashboard. This dashboard can be manually equipped on the board to offer CPU tuning and several OC essential buttons. This is similar to MSI's previous XPOWER boards but only this is an enhanced PCB that is bundled with the board and can be easily removed when not needed.

There are voltage read points along with other tuning buttons that include Easy Button 3 (Power On/Off/Reset) , a complete Discharge switch, CPU Ratio OC +/-, BCLK OC +/-, Slow Mode and a Go2BIOS switch. Expansion slot include two PCI-e 3.0 x16, two PCI-e 3.0 x8 and three PCI-e 3.0 x1 slots. There's a 6-Pin power connector that is used to add more power to the slots when the motherboard is loaded. We can't tell if there's a PLX chip hidden beneath one of those heatsinks but it means that the extra PCI-E lanes should not be needed even though the Z97 XPOWER did feature one. Other expansion slots include two M.2 slots. For storage, there's 8 SATA III 6 GBs ports, two SATA Express ports. Two USB 2.0 connectors, a right angled USB 3.0 connector and a USB 2.0 port is found internally on the board.
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Source: http://wccftech.com/msi-z170a-xpower-gaming-titanium-edition-motherboard-unveiled-military-class-v/

I'm not sure if the name of the board can get any longer? Must be for the ub3r 1337
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Looks great. Unfortunate name, but that is marketing.
 
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I'll take one minus all the superfluous crap for half the MSRP kthx.
 
#11 ·
Hopefully this product line is extended to Skylake-E MB's. Really don't feel like buying another ugly motherboard and I may just throw myself in front of a train if every Skylake-E MB is red and black.
 
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PLEASE MAKE A MATX VERSION!!!! /caps
 
#17 ·
Why can't MSI make anything subtle? Looks sick but that name though... what the hell is it marketing towards?
The aesthetics do look nice.
 
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Why can't MSI make anything subtle? Looks sick but that name though... what the hell is it marketing towards?
The aesthetics do look nice.
You'll see who it is marketed towards when you glance through some builds at pcpartpicker:

CPU: i7 6700k
Cooler: stock
Motherboard: MSI Z170A XPOWER GAMING Titanium Edition
GPU: nvidia gt 740
 
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Question is will the MSI Z170 motherboards have the Vcore voltage offset option within the Bios? None of the previous chipsets have it within the Bios.
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Biostar, ASRock, Gigabyte, Asus motherboards can do it, it's kinda annoying.

The thing is their X58 chipset motherboards had the ability to use offset.

Vdroop offset is alright but I'm still overvolting, you can't fine tweak it like voltage offset, just a percentage of the VID at whatever overclock your using 12.5%, 25%, 37.5%, 50% etc.

I could use manual vcore setting, which then will cause the voltage to be stuck 24/7 on the higher voltage, even if C1E, EIST etc are used.
 
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Now the real question is, are the chokes ACTUALLY better? And will they be spec'ed high enough to be useful? Id hate to see another fiasco like the MSI AMD boards catching fire sometimes even at stock speeds because their ******ed "Military spec" components were all just marketing and not spec'ed right at all.

Honestly I love the look of the board, but the MSI motherboards from both Intel and AMD sides have had some of the worst lifetimes of any MB's I have ever owned, so I doubt I will ever actually consider buying this.
 
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